The Short List

Thanks to "Gorillas in the Mist," Jane Goodall often gets mistaken for the primatologist portrayed in that movie, Dian Fossey—who died in 1985. Ms. Goodall shrugs off such misunderstandings. At age 77, she's spent the bulk of her career teaching everyday humans about the science of chimpanzees, tenets of which she discovered after first arriving in Tanzania 50 years ago. A...